Pittsfield Public Library

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-22 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Pittsfield Public Library, 110 Library St, Pittsfield, ME, 04967, United States
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included Tacta, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, and more!
The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Learn About Bees and Make Lemonade with Local Honey!
2026-07-22 15:30 - 16:30
Come learn all about bees and their important role as pollinators – and then make some lemonade sweetened with local honey! Yum!

Fraud Awareness & Prevention Workshop
2026-07-21 15:00 - 16:00
Join the Somerset Economic Development Corporation and AARP Maine for a FREE one hour workshop on identifying and avoiding common scams – on the internet and off.

We are all bombarded with call, emails, texts and more every day, many from people and organizations we’ve never heard of. How do you sift the wheat from the chaff and identify the bad actors? How can you keep yourself and your information safe, online and off? Come to this workshop and find out!

Free and open to the public; registration is optional and attendees are welcome to just walk in. In the Warren Community room of the Pittsfield Public Library.

Story Time Reads The Forever Garden
2026-07-20 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and her Story Time friends as they read The Forever Garden! Then enjoy a fun craft, movement and merriment.
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Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-15 18:00 - 20:00
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included Century Spice Road, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, and more!
The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

An Evening with Maine Author Kristen Clanton
2026-07-15 18:00 - 19:30
The 2026 Ann B. McGowan Maine Writers Series and the Pittsfield Public Library are proud to present an evening with local Maine novelist Kristen Clanton. Kristen teaches humanities at MCI and coaches cheerleading when not writing.

Kristen’s debut work is the young adult horror novel The Swallows. Set in the Black Mountain region, The Swallows explores the town of Fullmouth, where local mothers have started dying. At first, the panicked citizens believe the deaths are suicides. Yet fifteen-year-old Pearl is unconvinced. Pearl has known visions her whole life, known the feeling of when the darkness shifts inside her, and her power comes to surface.

But having recently moved to Fullmouth, the supernatural is suddenly magnified. She now finds herself able to commune with ghosts. She sees visions of how mothers will die. Relying on these powers, Pearl faces a daunting foe and the responsibility of saving the town. The only question is … will she be too late? Built on history, folk tradition, and witchcraft, The Swallows is a horror novel that explores a small town’s connection to the spiritual world and the families that fill it.

Kristen Clanton was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. She earned a dual BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tampa, and traveled west for a while, earning her MFA from the University of Nebraska. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous journals, including Arkana, BlazeVOX, South Florida Poetry Journal, and the Sugar House Review, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Kristen will have her works available for sale and signing at the event, which is free and open to the public. Come support your local authors!

Come Decorate a Plant Pot with the Pittsfield Community Garden Club!
2026-07-15 15:30 - 16:30
Bring back your seedlings from the kick off party and transplant them into a pot you beautifully decorate yourself! And if you don’t have a seedling to bring back…we’ll have some extra plants to transplant.

Story Time Reads In the Night Garden
2026-07-13 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and friends as they read In the Night Garden, enjoy some body movement, and make a fun craft!

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-08 18:00 - 20:00
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included Flip 7, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, and more!
The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Waterville Author Jeanine Deas Reads Her Book The ABC Ducks of Deering Oaks Park
2026-07-08 15:30 - 16:30
Come join Waterville, Maine author Jeanine Deas as she reads The ABC Ducks of Deering Oaks Park with Miss Cassidy! The park ducks waddle, quack and swim their way through the alphabet. Then have fun with a duck-themed craft!

Story Time Reads Lily's Garden
2026-07-06 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and friends as they read Lily’s Garden, enjoy some body movement, and make a fun craft!
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Library CLOSED for 4th of July
2026-07-03 - 2026-07-04
The library will be CLOSED July 3rd and 4th in observance of the July 4th holiday.
Please note that we are CLOSED all Saturdays in July and August. We will resume Saturday hours on Saturday, September 12th.

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-01 18:00 - 20:00
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included RoboRally, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, The Sheep and more!
The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Sunny Day Art Play - Nature Collages!
2026-07-01 15:30 - 16:30
Come join Miss Cassy in finding beauty in nature and then making a beautiful collage in a fun frame to take home! We’ll have an alternate activity indoors if the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Miss Jenny's Playgroup!
2026-07-01 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Jenny from KVCAP for developmentally appropriate movement, games, crafts, and FUN! This playgroup is designed for birth to age five, but everyone is welcome! Miss Jenny is here on the first Wednesday of every month at 10:30AM. This is a great way to meet families with young children the same age as yours.

Come Meet the Butterfly Guy! Pollinator Presentation by Jerry Schneider
2026-06-25 15:30 - 16:30
Come to a fascinating program all about butterflies and their crucial role as pollinators. What butterflies are there in Maine, and what can we do to attract them and to help them raise their young? How can we create pollinator habitats?
After the presentation, make yourself a stunning butterfly t-shirt! Bring a plain colored cotton or cotton-blend t-shirt (anything but black or dark blue) and go home with a work of nature art you create yourself! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=310637634172331

Jerry Schneider is the inventor of the Butterfly Game, and has served on the steering committee of the Vermont Butterfly Atlas Project. He has been presenting about pollinators to schools and libraries across New England for many years.

Free and open to the public.

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-06-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-06-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-06-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-06-03 18:00 - 20:00
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included RoboRally, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, and more!
The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Summer Reading Kick Off Party!
2026-06-24 15:30 - 16:30
Come to the Summer Reading Program Kick Off party! Sign up for the program, get your reading logs, and plant some real seeds with the Pittsfield Community Garden Club. We’ll have snacks, games, and a good time for all! Then bring your sprouted seeds back in three weeks to repot them into a planter you decorate yourself!

Story Time Reads How to Say Hello to a Worm
2026-06-22 10:30 - 11:30
Come read How to Say Hello to a Worm with Story Time as we gear up for the Summer Reading theme of Plant a Seed – Read! How do you say hello to worms and other garden friends? Enjoy a fun craft after the story.

An Evening with Maine Author Beverly D. Knowles
2026-06-17 18:00 - 19:30
The 2026 Ann B. McGowan Maine Writers Series and the Pittsfield Public Library are proud to present an evening with local Maine novelist Beverly D. Knowles. Beverly is the author of Echoes from Deane Mountain and Threads of Deception, the first two books in a planned trilogy following one family’s fictionalized history in Temple, Maine.

She writes: “Into woods on a windy day, I walked. A visit to the ancestral graveyards was my destination. Recalling the generational stories, the memories as I stood upon the Deane Homestead, the land, buildings, orchard overcome by time and by nature. The only evidence of a neighborhood that once flourished near Varnum Pond in Temple, Maine were the stones; gravestones and crumbling stone walls.

Inspired by the swaying branches, by our family roots deeply planted on this land, the ancestors of the Deane family must not be lost in time, but remembered. In Echoes from Deane Mountain, the reader follows Jennie’s story, a journey back to thisland, back to the place of childhood, her troubled heart seeking.

Inspiration builds and may be found in the writing of a first book, as it was for the creation of the second, Threads of Deception—Elizabeth’s story, a story of Aroostook County. To complete the trilogy: Simon’s story is a work in progress.”

Beverly will have her books available for sale and signing at the event, which is free and open to the public. Come support your local authors!

We All Scream for Ice Cream at Fun STEAM!
2026-06-17 15:30 - 16:30
Come make ice cream with Miss Cassidy! Learn about the chemistry behind your favorite dessert and enjoy the fruits, er, ice cream, of your labors!

Miss Hanna Makes Tissue Paper Mosaic Wishing Jars!
2026-06-16 15:00 - 16:00
Come join Miss Hanna is making tissue paper mosaic wishing jars! This fun craft is free and everyone is invited. Miss Hanna brings a free craft to the library on the third Tuesday of every month – mark your calendars and come have fun!

Story Time Reads The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears
2026-06-15 10:30 - 11:30
Come read this rollicking adventure starring bears, thieves, and even a ninja frog! And as always, enjoy a great craft after.
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LEGO Club
2026-06-13 13:00 - 14:00
What can you build with the library’s collection of LEGOs? Only your imagination knows! LEGO time is free and open to all ages.

Library Book Club Reads Amanda Peters' Novel The Berry Pickers
2026-06-11 13:00 - 14:30
Come join the library Book Club as they discuss Amanda Peters award-winning novel The Berry Pickers. This lauded debut novel traces the lives of two Mi’kmaq siblings separated when four year old Ruthie is stolen from her family and raised by a white family. Brother Joe, six at the time of Ruthie’s disappearance, never forgives himself for her loss. Their separate lives and eventual reunion are powerfully told by author Peters, herself of both Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry.
The library book club meets monthly on the second Thursday at 1PM. Books are chosen for the next meeting at the close of the current discussion. Come join us!

Come Be a Planet Protector with Fun STEAM Time!
2026-06-10 15:30 - 16:30
Come learn why our earth is so important (it’s the only one we’ve got!) and how you can help protect it. Then make your very own paper globe so you can cradle the planet in your own hands!

Story Time Reads The Bugliest Bug
2026-06-08 10:30 - 11:30
Come read The Bugliest Bug with Story Time! What makes the bugliest bug? Is it wings? Is it spots? Come find out and have fun with a bug craft!
